David Blockley
Chief Operating OfficerBrings thirty-five years of software, operations and enterprise delivery experience, including founding and selling two regulated-data businesses.
About David
David Blockley is Chief Operating Officer at Cloudax, responsible for operational delivery, process and service performance. He brings thirty-five years of experience across software development, regulated data platforms, enterprise sales and business operations. David founded Vehicle Data Services, which built a database of more than thirty-six million vehicle records using licensed industry data and was sold to Auto Data Network.
He later founded Advanced Checking Services, a DVLA-licensed provider of electronic driving licence checks serving more than five hundred customers, and sold the business to GB Group PLC. His subsequent work has included software delivery for Glasgow City Council through CGI, oversight of distributed development teams and senior sales leadership. At Cloudax, David applies this experience to the operation and delivery of its enterprise conversational AI platform.
Expertise
- Operations Leadership
- Software Product Delivery
- Licensed Data Platforms
- Regulatory & Compliance Data
- Mergers & Acquisitions (Sell-Side)
- Enterprise Software Sales
- IoT & Digital Transformation
- Founding & Scaling Businesses
Experience
- Head of SalesWillo
- DirectorUtilities Software Limited
- DirectorIngeniuus Ltd
- DirectorVIOTU Limited
- Founder & DirectorIntegral Ecology Limited
- Founder & Director of StrategyAdvanced Checking Services (sold to GB Group PLC)
- Founder & DirectorVehicle Data Services (sold to Auto Data Network)
- Founder & Managing DirectoriFarm Limited
Questions about David
Who is David Blockley?
David Blockley is Chief Operating Officer at Cloudax. He has spent thirty-five years in software and has founded, scaled and sold two data businesses: Vehicle Data Services, sold to Auto Data Network, and Advanced Checking Services, sold to GB Group PLC.
What is David Blockley's role at Cloudax?
David Blockley serves as Chief Operating Officer at Cloudax, with responsibility for operational delivery, process and service performance across its enterprise conversational AI platform.
What companies has David Blockley founded?
David Blockley founded iFarm Limited (originally The Internet Farm) in 1997, Vehicle Data Services in 2004, Advanced Checking Services in 2006, Integral Ecology Limited in 2013, and Ingeniuus Ltd in 2018.
Has David Blockley sold a business?
Yes, twice. Vehicle Data Services was sold to US company Auto Data Network, and Advanced Checking Services was sold to GB Group PLC, where he continued for a year as Director of Strategy.
What did Advanced Checking Services do?
Advanced Checking Services held a DVLA licence for driver data and delivered electronic driving licence checks, taking data direct from the source authority with the driver's consent to remove the fraud risk of paper-based checking. At the time of sale it was running over seventy thousand checks a year for more than five hundred customers, including Stagecoach Bus, First Bus, FedEx and Greggs PLC.
What experience does David Blockley bring to Cloudax?
David Blockley brings three and a half decades of building software products on licensed, tightly regulated data sources (DVLA, ABI, the Finance and Leasing Association and the Police Information Technology Office), operating those services and leading enterprise sales teams. He has also founded and sold two data businesses.
